Chapter 542 The Heaven and Earth Star Chart (6000 Words, Seeking Monthly Tickets!)

Nanze Prefecture, bordering the South Prison Sea and the remnant islands of South Continent, is the closest prefecture to the current Zhengyang State. It is also the state where the Kun demons invaded in the past, and Zhengyang State shattered the earth veins with the Wasteland Shattering Array, causing countless refugees to flee.

Since ancient times, this place has suffered countless hardships, and beneath the lush, vast forests lies layer upon layer of dry bones.

Every time a New Dynasty pioneer comes here, drains the swamp water, and intends to build a city, they can dig up countless, diverse, and unrotted swamp corpses from those seemingly calm muds.

Demons, monsters, miasma, and poisonous gas are all part of Nanze Prefecture.

Although Su Zhou has only been here for a little over a day, he already understands the characteristics of Nanze Prefecture very well.

That is, no presence, eats everything, and the bugs are big, many, and everywhere is a desolate land.

Because the terrain is too harsh, Nanze Prefecture, apart from the occasional True Ones from above who come to slay demons and eliminate monsters, does not have any large-scale investment and development plans, which cannot be compared with the Qinglin and Baishan Prefectures in the north, which have been increasing their investment, so it is jokingly called a non-existent prefecture.

In Su Zhou's Divine Eye vision, the aura of the entire Nanze Prefecture is very different from other continents, filled with endless baleful aura and curses after the death of the dead.

Especially the coast of the South Prison Sea in the distance, there are faint, substantive wails of resentful souls. Heaven knows how many trillions of lives were buried with the sinking of the South Continent in the past.

Therefore, on such a land filled with endless baleful aura in every grain of sand, it is not surprising that a human-shaped figure with a relatively weak baleful aura suddenly appeared following him and was discovered by Su Zhou at the first time.

"Your hiding method is quite powerful, you can hide all your aura and transform into 'nothingness'."

Turning his head, after the two New Dynasty officials sped away, Su Zhou looked at the jungle on the side and praised with a smile, "If this hiding method wasn't a bit counterproductive in Nanze Prefecture, I might not have been able to discover you at the first time."

Of course, he is just boasting. Su Zhou is only talking about his normal spiritual eyes, and naturally the situation of using the Light and Shadow Divine Eyes is not included.

Hearing this, the figure who had been hiding all the way and followed Su Zhou's footsteps to this place also knew very well that he was very likely to have been discovered from the beginning, and even, from the very beginning, the clues he found were what Su Zhou could reveal to him.

Therefore, he smiled bitterly and appeared from the jungle.

"I thought, if it was Real Person Candlelight, he would definitely be able to sneak into any place without any clues. Being discovered must be a trick."

The man who spoke had a sad face. He had an ordinary face, like a hardworking middle-aged man who could be seen everywhere. Whether he was a woodcutter or a farmer, he would be perfectly harmonious, but he was wearing a general's uniform that looked extremely high-level, which made his aura a little discordant.

Bowing respectfully to Su Zhou, the man who introduced himself as Han Shiling sighed: "As you can see, I have no malice."

"Although I am the leader of the relevant intelligence department of Zhengyang State, I am also one of the 'Zhengyang Hidden Stones' directly under His Majesty Ming Zhengde, the Holy Emperor of the New Dynasty."

"Hidden Stone?"

Muttering to himself, Su Zhou's expression was a little strange.

Indeed, as Han Shiling speculated, because he did not perceive any relevant malice or hostility, Su Zhou did not intend to attack directly from the beginning.

Whether the other party was talking to him to delay time, waiting for the arrival of Zhengyang's reinforcements, or whether they had any hidden purpose, he didn't care, he had ways to deal with it.

After all, as Han Shiling said just now, he has ten thousand ways to sneak in secretly.

But the reason why Su Zhou revealed his whereabouts to Zhengyang State and the gods and demons was to attract the other party's power, so that the other party could indeed discover his whereabouts without being able to find him so easily, so as to attract firepower to Ming Zhengde and others' plans to the greatest extent.

Moreover, the other party did not even attack the two New Dynasty local officials who rushed back to Linyuan Prefecture to report the news, which can also prove that the other party did have some goodwill... As for the various monsters that attacked before, they were used as sacrifices to collect his power, which was nothing to Su Zhou.

Anyway, if they want to understand Su Zhou's strength from this aspect, it is essentially like using an ordinary human-level punch force testing machine to test the strength of a road roller, which is very meaningless.

They are all one hundred points. The strength of others is one hundred points, and Su Zhou is because the upper limit of the testing machine is only one hundred points.

"If I understand the meaning of 'Hidden Stone' correctly... you are the head of Zhengyang State's spies."

The light in his eyes twisted, and Su Zhou looked Han Shiling up and down.

This is a land True One who has cultivated a superior method similar to the 'Formless Dharma Body', who can transform into formless escape light and travel across the world. His strength is at the peak of the True One realm. Even if he is not as good as Ming Zhengde, Nan Zhengkai, and Yan Chili, he is far stronger than the average high-level True One.

The so-called Hidden Stone, to put it bluntly, is a secret spy who has been turned against, or who has infiltrated the enemy's system from the beginning.

Each Hidden Stone is extremely confidential. For the New Dynasty, only Ming Zhengde has the relevant Hidden Stone list. No one else, not even Cang Song, knows.

Each of them is personally contacted by Ming Zhengde, and will never be made public unless absolutely necessary.

But now, facing the Real Person Candlelight in front of him, Han Shiling judged that now is a special moment, and he can reveal his identity.

Because this kind of thing is too bizarre, Su Zhou couldn't tell the truth from the fake for a while.

After all, no one would believe it if he used this kind of thing to deceive people. Even the most exaggerated spy novels would not dare to use this setting.

You must know that Han Shiling's identity is the head of all relevant intelligence departments in Zhengyang State, including secret agents, spies, internal sabotage elements, and internal monitoring agencies.

——The head of the enemy's intelligence work has given up treatment and defected to our side. No matter how you think about it, this kind of thing is too strange.

This identity, if changed to the Earth's Proper Country, would at least be one of the Sages, with a first-class academy and many other departments under his jurisdiction. He is one of the highest decision-making levels in the entire Zhengyang State, and his strength is strong and his supernatural powers are outstanding.

When he was lurking before, it was only because his divine eyes were better that he could detect it. If he were to change to Yan Chili, I am afraid that he would not be able to discover the other party at all.

Therefore, the young man raised his head slightly, and said with a subtle expression: "But, as the head of the spies, you were actually sent by Ming Zhengde from the beginning, a spy lurking in Zhengyang State? Or were you turned against midway?"

"Most importantly, do you have any means of proving it?"

"This..."

Obviously, even Han Shiling felt a little difficult to explain this kind of thing for a while.

After being silent for a while, he sighed lightly and replied: "No one turned against me... I, voluntarily betrayed Zhengyang State."

When he said the word betrayal, Su Zhou could feel Han Shiling's heart darkening. Obviously, he did not want to make such a choice. The middle-aged man's voice was full of helplessness: "After all, I did not think about this when I abandoned literature for military service and joined the imperial court."

"I know this is too bizarre, but I have evidence."

Saying this, Han Shiling closed his eyes. His True One strength surged, but it did not cause the slightest change in the surrounding heaven and earth spiritual energy—formless and intangible transparent spiritual light condensed in his palm, and finally revealed a wisp of the 'Five Virtues Divine Light Seal' hidden in the deepest part of his skills.

"Good."

Seeing this trace of streamer, like a rainbow, indeed belonging to Ming Zhengde's Five Virtues Divine Light, Su Zhou immediately understood in his heart, and there was nothing to doubt.

He raised his head, looked at Han Shiling, who carefully retracted this wisp of Five Virtues Divine Light, and asked with some incomprehension: "Then what are you here to see me for now?"

"Exposing your identity rashly will definitely be detrimental to Ming Zhengde's next plan."

"In short."

In response, Han Shiling did not say much nonsense. His expression was solemn: "After Nan Zhengkai knew that you were coming to Nanze Prefecture to find 'opportunity', he asked the gods and demons for a lot of grace, intending to lead a group of elites to personally come and besiege you."

"Zhengyang State and the New Dynasty have a contract coordinated by gods and demons. As long as it cannot be proved that this matter was done by Zhengyang State, even if those hidden inside the New Dynasty, many secret agents accepted as citizens, create countless destructions, the New Dynasty has no reason to counterattack Zhengyang State—and Real Person, you are obviously not a citizen of the New Dynasty, so the head and the others can ignore the gods and demons contract and directly attack you with all their strength!"

"Oh? Interesting."

Hearing this answer, Su Zhou was not surprised. He looked at Han Shiling, who had a serious face, and asked with great interest: "Does Nan Zhengkai know that my strength is about the same as Ming Zhengde, or even stronger?"

"He was defeated when he took all the elites and Dao soldiers of Zhengyang State to fight Ming Zhengde. Could it be that he can be even stronger this time?"

In this regard, Han Shiling was obviously not very clear either. He also looked quite puzzled: "The head may know, but he doesn't believe that Real Person Candlelight has such strength."

"Maybe he doesn't know, so the ignorant are fearless—but I don't think so. The head is obviously confident. He has indeed obtained many god and demon wonders from the gods and demons, and it is not surprising that some of them are specially designed to restrain the Divine Bird."

Raising his hand and bowing slightly to Su Zhou, the middle-aged man with an ordinary face said in a solemn tone: "In short, although the head has been defeated again and again by His Majesty the Holy Emperor, and has even fallen to the current situation, he was also a powerful figure who almost unified Central Continent in the past. His decision-making and judgment in this regard are not bad—he must have prepared relevant trump cards to target you."

"And Real Person Candlelight, your strength is indeed very strong, but there is no need to take risks in this regard. I have a route map here that is absolutely safe to the place where the 'Town Prison Subduing Demon Iron' is located, and various important secret strongholds of Zhengyang State in Nanze Prefecture..."

Speaking halfway, Han Shiling was about to take out a jade slip from his arms.

However, his movements were stopped by Su Zhou's raised hand.

"This matter is not in a hurry, I have my own plans."

At this moment, in the young man's eyes, what was flashing was the light of curiosity: "But listening to your tone, you are quite respectful to that Nan Zhengkai, even it can be said to be admiration... Then why did you abandon the other party and defect to the New Dynasty?"

Su Zhou was not purely gossiping.

But he faintly smelled a hint of the 'god and demon' taste from it.

As the previous spokesperson of the gods and demons in the Tianyuan Mortal Realm, the head of Zhengyang State who is about to unify Central Continent, holding Dao soldiers, an invincible powerhouse except for Ming Zhengde... Nan Zhengkai obviously has pride in his heart.

He may be selfish, ruthless, indifferent, and cruel, an extremely evil existence, but he must have a program and belief that can allow him to command the many civil and military officials under his command.

Just like Han Shiling, a peak powerhouse who Su Zhou would probably not be able to catch even if he did not use his full strength if he wanted to run away, does not need to be so obedient to Nan Zhengkai.

He, or rather, he must have believed that Nan Zhengkai's path was correct.

It's just that he was disappointed later.

Stopped by Su Zhou, Han Shiling didn't understand why Su Zhou, who was regarded as the target, was so calm.

But since he was asked, he also understood that if he didn't answer, Su Zhou would obviously not end this topic easily.

Therefore, he smiled bitterly and said: "In the past, I believed in the head... at least believed in a large part of it."

"In the past, no matter what decision the head made, he could at least convince us that it was for the 'inheritance of humanity', and he himself was indeed striving tirelessly for the continuation of humanity."

"But, suddenly one day—probably on the eve of the Kun demons' large-scale invasion and the decisive battle in Canghai Prefecture, the head who was summoned by the gods and demons suddenly became radical."

Speaking of this, Han Shiling frowned, he said in a deep voice: "At that time, the head said 'the inheritance of humanity is closely related to the gods and demons', and then said something like 'the Tianyuan Mortal Realm is about to encounter a great disaster, our human race has no hope and future, we can only rely on the gods and demons', which he had never said in the past."

"He said that only gods and demons can save our human race, and those like Ming Zhengde who are outwardly compliant but inwardly defiant to the gods and demons are destined to die, and are evil ways that put hundreds of millions of sentient beings in danger..."

"But before this, the head even thought about whether to call a truce with the New Dynasty after the decisive battle. Both sides are human races, and there is no need for internal wars to exhaust the blood of humanity..."

"I don't know why his attitude suddenly changed, the head never said, but the result is like this, even if our Zhengyang State is so defeated, the head has never changed his mind."

Speaking of this, Han Shiling, who was still saying the phrase 'our Zhengyang State', shook his head somewhat helplessly: "He believes... he is correct."

"But I don't think so. At least in my opinion, the New Dynasty is working hard to develop people's livelihood and cultivate cultivators. If it weren't for our interference, the current New Dynasty should be a peaceful and prosperous world that is ten or dozens of times more prosperous than the fully artifact Zhengyang State in the past... I can't accept that I am actually a destroyer of humanity, a party without justice... I don't want my hundreds of years of persistence to become a joke."

"Even if it violates loyalty and righteousness... that will at most make me alone return to the Nine Netherworlds after death, instead of making thousands of sentient beings cry."

Han Shiling's words came from the heart.

Confirming with the Heart of No Thought, although it is a bit difficult for strong people of the same level, Su Zhou can at least be sure that what the other party said is true.

"Sure enough, is it related to gods and demons... Nan Zhengkai must have learned some news from the gods and demons, so he can make this kind of judgment."

Thinking in his heart, Su Zhou nodded slightly: "I understand..."

Saying this, he took the jade slip from Han Shiling's hand: "Do you probably know how many people are in the team that Nan Zhengkai and the others are going to besiege me?"

"More than ten people, leaving their nest, I am not in it, I don't know any more information."

After handing out the jade slip, Han Shiling took a step back. He bowed slightly to Su Zhou: "Please forgive me, I have to retreat now. This time, directly communicating with you is actually taking a great risk of exposure."

"So, later, I will directly report your current location to the head, so during this time, you should leave as quickly as possible and act according to the route in the jade slip—with my intelligence, as long as you lurk all the way, they will not be able to catch up with you."

"That doesn't matter."

At this time, Su Zhou sensed the information in the jade slip, and he soon knew everything about Zhengyang State's deployment in Nanze Prefecture like the back of his hand.

Then, the young man turned his head and said with a smile to Han Shiling, who intended to leave: "However, I have a better way to prevent you from being suspected."

"Ah?"

At this moment, Han Shiling, who was preparing to transform into formless escape light and return to report to Nan Zhengkai to maintain his superficial identity, was stunned, and then his expression changed drastically: "Wait, Real Person, you?!"

At this moment, he sensed that a vast and mighty power, as if it could suppress the heaven and earth together, was pressing towards him, sealing off all methods and trajectories of escape!

Two giant hands condensed from wind and thunder slowly closed up and down, wanting to completely suppress it!

Transference, invalid! Escape light, useless! Hiding is even more meaningless!

Ten times, a hundred times?

No, not that many times, but it is extremely pure and extremely condensed.

Although both are at the peak of the True One realm, they seem to be completely different levels of spiritual power reserves and quality!

The formless escape light twisted, trying to struggle, trying to break free from the giant hands of wind and thunder, but Su Zhou, who was prepared, did not care—the Light and Shadow Divine Eyes could allow him to see in advance the place where Han Shiling intended to break through each time, and blocked all the directions the other party was trying to escape like a prophet.

Until the end, Han Shiling, who had almost given up, could only see the light smile on the corner of the young man's mouth.

"Sorry to trouble you, friend."

Then, his hands closed together.

The young man grabbed Han Shiling.

However, Han Shiling, who was caught, found that although he was imprisoned in his palm, he did not lose his ability to act.

Afterwards, he even heard Su Zhou's quite kind tone.

"Send a message—report my location to Nan Zhengkai."

"Right now, send it once every five minutes."

"Don't stop."

While Han Shiling was dumbfounded, Nanze Prefecture, around Linyuan Prefecture.

A high-pitched phoenix cry sounded.

"Qiang——"

Boom!

Then, there was a huge shock that surpassed thunder.

The cyan-golden divine light flickered, like the second blazing sun on the earth.

At this moment, the two New Dynasty Nanze officials, who had just left the wilderness not long ago, also noticed the sudden huge spiritual power shock that came from behind them, and the suddenly lit Candlelight Divine Bird light.

The two people who were leaving immediately had solemn expressions.

"Sure enough, the remnants of Zhengyang State are attacking Real Person Candlelight!"

"Real Person Candlelight must have let us leave first to protect us!"

"We must hurry back to report to His Majesty that Real Person has encountered a surprise attack by Zhengyang State. We need reinforcements!"

Under rapid communication, the two light spots immediately accelerated and flew towards the forest town not far away.

...Not long after.

The capital of Zhengyang State.

"What?!"

An extremely astonished, even shocking word, came from the mouth of the cyan-haired man who was checking the Azure Sky Zhengyang Ruler and the 'divine object' that he had just obtained from the immortals and gods: "Han Shiling was hijacked by Candlelight?!"

His tone was extremely stunned.

"What?!"

Hearing this, in addition to Han Shiling, the other leaders and deputy leaders of the many related institutions that were conducting intelligence work were all stunned. They looked at each other in surprise and exclaimed: "Chief Han was hijacked by Candlelight?!"

Their tones were also extremely stunned.

Even at the same time.

Central Continent of the New Dynasty, the Kyoto Imperial Palace.

Ming Zhengde, who was discussing cooperation matters with Cang Song, Yan Chili, and other Divine Birds on the soul network, suddenly stood up from his seat after hearing the relevant news, which startled the others.

He said blankly: "What?!"

"Candlelight hijacked Han Shiling?!"

Everyone who knew about this matter, no matter what the reason or what they thought.

But what remained unchanged was surprise.

Some time later.

"Head, we have received the information sent by Commander Han!"

In the center of the capital of Zhengyang State, on the towering Star Observation Platform, Nan Zhengkai, with a solemn and deep expression, stepped to the highest point step by step.

And circles of silver-blue, starlight-like magic array patterns and mysterious runes gradually lit up as star-point light debris particles scattered.

A True Person following beside him reported the relevant data at any time: "Now, Candlelight is in Nanze Prefecture, in the southeast direction, around Mount Fuliu!"

"Good."

Hearing this, Nan Zhengkai nodded solemnly. He raised his hand and reached out to the sky at the top of the Star Observation Platform.

In the next moment, endless starlight gathered in the center of his palm. It gathered into a chessboard that was between illusion and reality.

In the chessboard, starlight flickered, and there were mountains, rivers, cities, wildernesses, white snow, vast seas, forests, and deserts, as if the entire Tianyuan Mortal Realm was included in it.

"Around Mount Fuliu!"

Nan Zhengkai shouted softly, and instantly, the lens in the chessboard locked, and a cyan-golden light spot appeared in the center of the chessboard.

It can be seen that on this small chessboard, the huge phantom representing the Divine Bird Candlelight is flying rapidly, and Han Shiling is struggling under his claws.

Even the Divine Bird raised his head and scanned the sky above. His divine eyes were shining, as if he had noticed the peeping, and then returned a cold, sneering cry to the inexplicable gaze above the sky.

"Sure enough, this Divine Bird Candlelight's divine eyes are very strong, even the detection of this Heaven and Earth Star Chart can be detected!"

Seeing this, Nan Zhengkai's expression was extremely solemn: "It is not surprising that Shiling was discovered."

"Head!"

At this moment, the True Person who followed Nan Zhengkai and relayed Han Shiling's report information had an extremely serious expression: "Commander Han was hijacked by Candlelight, what should we do?"

"What to do..."

At this moment, Nan Zhengkai's eyes were also extremely entangled. Han Shiling was his beloved general who had followed him for hundreds of years, otherwise, he would not have entrusted him with the most secret matter of intelligence work... But the power of the Heaven and Earth Star Chart was not something he could grasp.

The gods and demons' instructions, the responsibility of humanity, and even friendship and the friendship between a ruler and his ministers... all made him extremely hesitant.

But in the end, Nan Zhengkai's eyes were determined, and he gritted his teeth and said: "What else can we do?"

"Attack!"

After saying that, he resolutely input spiritual power and merged into the illusory star chart in his hand.

The spiritual power of a peak True Person was gathered by that small star chart, and then turned into an endless and long thin light, breaking through the clouds and the sky, and directly into the sky above.

Instantly.

The daylight sky above Zhengyang State instantly lit up with a not very obvious starlight.

And in the next instant... all the stars gathered.

All the beings in the entire Nanze Prefecture, and even the southern part of the entire Tianyuan Mortal Realm, raised their heads in unison and saw a scene that made their eyes widen and their hearts shocked.

That was countless stars.

From the top of the sky, countless stars shone, gathered divine light, and then... dragged long tails.

Showered brilliance towards the earth.

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